Fascismo « Le Pierre Spinàle 

Il 27 settembre scorso è apparso sul “The Times” un articolo dal seguente titolo:

Spirit of Benito Mussolini is revived amid fears of right-wing march to power.

(Lo spirito di Benito Mussolini rivive tra le paure di una marcia al potere della destra)

di Richard Owen

“His monuments still dominate Rome’s skyline; his name is chanted at football matches and a notorious episode of his rule was recently re-enacted, complete with men dressed as SS stormtroopers. The rehabilitation of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s wartime dictator, may not yet be complete — but it is not for want of trying.

Yesterday urban planners and architectural historians from across Italy gathered in Rome to honour the “glories” of Fascist architecture. The conference, at Latina, a model “new town” created in reclaimed marshland south of Rome by Mussolini in 1932, is the brainchild of Giorgio Frasinetti, the head of urban planning at Predappio, the town in Emilia-Romagna where Il Duce was born and is buried.

Mr Frasinetti admitted that Fascism had its “ugly” aspects but he insisted that the buildings erected throughout the country under Mussolini should not be seen as an embarrassment, but deserved “re-evaluation”.The move follows the restoration of an obelisk bearing the word “Dux” (Duce) outside the Olympic Stadium in Rome and of Mussolini’s Rome residence, the Villa Torlonia. This month a “wartime enactment association” wearing Nazi uniforms re-created the rescue of Mussolini by SS commandos at Campo Imperatore in the Abruzzo mountains, where he was held after being deposed in September 1943. Massimo Castelli, head of the association, insisted that the event arose solely from a “passion for military history”.

There is, however, growing disquiet on the Left and among Jewish and Roman Catholic groups. They fear that neo-Fascists are taking advantage of a perceived shift to the right in Italy since elections last April, which brought to power a coalition headed by Silvio Berlusconi. It includes not only the anti-immigrant Northern League, but also Alleanza Nazionale, the reformed descendant of Mussolini’s Blackshirts.”

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La inglese BBC ha, qualche anno fa, realizzato un interessantissimo documentario dal titolo “The Fascist Legacy”, comprato dalla RAI, ma mai trasmesso. Andò in onda su La7 a spezzoni. Il video racconta delle innumerevoli atrocità commesse dal regime fascista durante il ventennio, in Italia, nelle guerre coloniali, durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Inoltre l’autore, Ken Kirby, evidenzia come certe realtà storiche siano state di fatto rimosse dal popolo italiano come in una sorta di “terrore del passato”. Terrore che non ha consentito alla popolazione italiana di prendere realmente coscenza degli accadimenti storici e la espone al rischio di effettuare inopportune forme di revisionismo storico o di ripetere alcuni errori.